"Chris Hoover" < revoohc@gmail.com> writes: > I turned on autovacuum on one of my database servers over the weekend. I > have been looking at the logs trying to see what it is doing. However, all > I see are lines like this: > ,7674,,2006-06-26 16:31:37.650 EDT,,1,,,,LOG: autovacuum: processing > database "postgres" > Is there a way to tell if autovacuum is actually doing any work? As far as > I can see, it is running, but has not done any work.
I think that's all you'll see at the default logging level. There are per-table messages at DEBUG2 level ... which will enable a whole lot of other chatter as well :-(
